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HEDGE FENCE. No. 250,032. Patented Nov. 22,1881.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID S. YOUNOE AND DANIEL YOUNOE, OF WEST MILTON, OHIO.

HEDGE-FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 250,032, dated November22, 1881.

' Application filed August 26, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID S. YOUNOE and DANL. YoUNoE, of West Milton,in the county of Miami and State of Ohio, have in vented certain new anduseful Improvements in Hedge- Fences; and we do hereby declare thefollow ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use it, reference being had. to the accompanying drawings,whichform partofthis specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in hedge-fences; and it consistsin bending the twigs over and securing the first two against a post orstake which is driven into the ground for the purpose, and thenfastening the tops of the other twigs in place by bending them over andclamping them together, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of our invention is to secure the plants of a hedge in such aposition that they will form a thick and serviceable fence Without thenecessity ot'so much cutting and trimming.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a side view of the post alone.

A represents the row of plan ts, and B a post or stake which is driveninto the ground at one end of the row, and which post has a suitablenotch or shoulder, O, of any kind, formed in one of its edges. The firsttwo or three of the plants are bent over and fastened in this notch orunder the shoulder, so that they will be held at the angle at which theyhave been bent over. The next two or three of the plants are then bentover so that their tops will come upon a level with the second one ofthe plants which has been made to catch against the post, and then thosetops are fastened together by means of a clamp, which consists ot'twopieces of wood, D, which have their ends secured together by means ofwires. The next succeeding series of plants are then bent over andsecured to one or more of the plants which have already been bent overand fastened in place, so that they cannot return to a verticalposition, and these are clamped in place, as above described, and so onto the end of the row. As the plants grow the branches will growdownward equally upon every side, and, reaching down to the ground, willform a thick, tight hedge, which will form a fence against large andsmall animals of all kinds.

We are aware that it is not new to bend the upper portions of the plantsover and secure them together in this position, and this We disclaim. 7

Having thus described our invention, we claim- In a hedge-fence, thecombination of the DAVID s. YoUNoE. DANIEL YoUNon.

Witnesses G. W. NrLEs, L. F. NILEs.

